In case you still haven't gotten that perfect someone the perfect gift, I've got a couple of suggestions for you. Of course your significant other would love one of my books. And if you buy the Kindle version, they'll get it immediately so you won't be late with the gift or look like one of those people who waits until the last minute to shop.

And to make it easy for you, we're running a Valentine's Day-only sale. For one-day only you can get that course for half price. You can get a 6-month streaming license for $100 or a streaming+download license for $150.

Do yourself a favor--skip the romantic dinner, the flowers, the candy and all those other gifts. Get your signficant other what they really want: over three hours of tips on how to estimate and plan on agile and Scrum projects.

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As the founder of Mountain Goat Software, Mike Cohn specializes in helping companies adopt and improve their use of agile processes and techniques to build extremely high-performance teams. He is the author of User Stories Applied for Agile Software Development, Agile Estimating and Planning, and Succeeding with Agile. Mike is a founding member of the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance. He is also the founder of FrontRowAgile.com, an online agile training website. He can be reached at [email protected] or connect with Mike on Google+.

We're moving (soon, I hope) to threaded comments with voting buttons. Yes, I think that page is hilarious personally. But my sense of humor is definitely a bit unusual.Posted by Mike Cohn on 2013-02-26 14:36:58

Can I inject a PBI for an upvote button? Everyone needs to see that page.Posted by Paul on 2013-02-26 14:28:40

Good point, Paul. You can make sure your personal stakeholder is more appreciative of your Valentine's Day gifts by always wearing a nice cologne. I find this to be the choice of good ScrumMasters: http://www.scrummaster-fragrance.com/Posted by Mike Cohn on 2013-02-26 13:07:06

Although entertaining, that has a low probability (depending on the number of egg/stories) of representing Stake Holder priority order, no? Or at this point have they already agreed to a sprint backlog, so the order doesn't really matter as long as all the work is completed by end of timebox?Posted by Paul on 2013-02-26 12:50:27

Good idea, Fred. My personal Easter celebration will be bigger than normal this year. I gave up Scrum for lent and can't wait to go back.
I'm also thinking of putting story cards in hidden Easter eggs and then having the team work on them in the order in which they find the eggs.Posted by Mike Cohn on 2013-02-23 16:38:13

Too late for valentines day. So I'll get the Kindle edition of Succeeding with Agile in advance of Easter.
Posted by Fred Carter on 2013-02-22 16:34:35

What could be more romantic than estimating and planning???Posted by Paul on 2013-02-15 11:30:03

Thanks, Russell. I just wanted to have fun. A couple of years ago, right before Christmas, I saw one of my books on Amazon. There was a little image next to it saying something like "Order by Tuesday to ensure Christmas delivery." And I thought, how said if someone gets "Succeeding with Agile" as their Christmas present. I'd prefer the socks I always get! So, if an agile book is good for Christmas, what could be better than a video course for saying "I love you" on Valentine's Day? Posted by Mike Cohn on 2013-02-14 09:24:24

Your a marketing genius while at the same time providing a generous offer to folks to gain valuable knowledge in a very friendly and effective format. Thank you for all you do to advance the profession of agile product development.Posted by Russell on 2013-02-14 03:54:48